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He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It’s not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.
He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It’s not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.
Approximate author period: c. 1972 AD · modern
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- Stephen R. Covey
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- Approximate author period: c. 1972 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Stephen Covey: life dates 1932 to 2012. Wikidata Q313482, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313482 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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